Re: Classic Cask rye question

Classic Cask is an independent bottler brand. They started out with scotch and started to do American whiskey maybe ten years ago. I think they're a marketing company, not actually a bottler, and since the folks producing this sort of thing have dwindled, it pretty much has to be sourced from KBD or HH. HH, of course, uses their own whiskey. KBD uses whiskey it acquires, often but not always from Heaven Hill.

I have it from pretty good sources that all of the old rye in the marketplace right now, except the Rittenhouse 21, is coming from KBD and is whiskey distilled at Bernheim in Louisville by UDV, ostensibly for the Cream of Kentucky brand.

Re: Classic Cask rye question

Oh I guess she did say that the rye resides at KBD, I assumed it was distilled there. I can dig deeper.

Definitely not pushing you to do anything you don't already intend to - with this.

I think the path has been traveled several times in the past and don't expect we'll find out a definitive answer as to specifically who made the orginal whiskey (although the choices seem to be fairly limited thanks to details Chuck and a few others have mined).

Re: Classic Cask rye question

Originally Posted by Vange

Oh I guess she did say that the rye resides at KBD, I assumed it was distilled there. I can dig deeper.

There has been no distilling at the KBD site since c. 1982 when it was the Willett Distillery. The Kulsveens have installed a new still at the site, but are not yet in operation (unless fired up very recently).

Hyphenated Rye

With slight variations in punctuation, the speaker may have meant (or meant to conceal) either of the following: "KBD-distilled rye" or "KBD, distilled rye".

The former would imply that KBD distilled it; the latter merely says that it bears the mark of KBD and is distilled. If the expression "rye whiskey" had been used, then the word "distilled" would have been superfluous. In that case one might argue that the omission of the hyphen was merely a matter of style.

Could it be that someone with my bent for nit-picking had a hand in coming up with this description? Or is it just happenstance?

Re: Hyphenated Rye

With slight variations in punctuation, the speaker may have meant (or meant to conceal) either of the following: "KBD-distilled rye" or "KBD, distilled rye".

The former would imply that KBD distilled it; the latter merely says that it bears the mark of KBD and is distilled. If the expression "rye whiskey" had been used, then the word "distilled" would have been superfluous. In that case one might argue that the omission of the hyphen was merely a matter of style.

Could it be that someone with my bent for nit-picking had a hand in coming up with this description? Or is it just happenstance?

Yours truly,
Dave Morefield

While I'm not an expert, I would say that you're a veritable cornucopia of vernacularity!